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Eliezer on July 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising r...

I can't believe it, I type "Idempotence" in and hit Lucky and it just takes me to the Wikipedia entry on Idempotence!

Even worse, "idempotence idempotence idempotence" doesn't produce exactly the same result in Google as "idempotence".

Vivtek on July 29, 2011 [–]

Because the ghost named Idempotence appears?

kennymeyers on July 29, 2011 | [–]

I like this, but only because I like Reddit so much.

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